The spectacle 2.0 : reading Debord in the context of digital capitalism / edited by Marco Briziarelli, Emiliana Armano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Briziarelli, Marco, editor.

Armano, Emiliana, editor.

Series:

CDSMS (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994--Criticism and interpretation.

Debord, Guy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Spectacle 2.0

Place of Publication:

London : University of Westminster Press, 2017.

Summary:

Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord's original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book's two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump, Debord's concept is arguably more relevant than ever.

Contents:

Preface : Guy Debord, Donald Trump, and the politics of the spectacle / Douglas Kellner

Introduction : from the notion of spectacle to Spectacle 2.0 : the dialectic of capitalist mediations / Marco Briziarelli and Emiliana Armano

Part I. Conceptualizing the spectacle

The integrated spectacle : towards aesthetic capitalism / Vanni Codeluppi

Guy Debord, a critique of modernism and Fordism : what lessons for today? / Olivier Frayssé

The spectacle of new media : addressing the conceptual nexus between user content and valorization / Raffaele Sciortino and Steve Wright

Spectacle and the singularity : Debord and the 'autonomous movement of non-life' in digital capitalism / Clayton Rosati

Part II. Phenomenology and historicisation of the spectacle : from Debord to the Spectacle 2.0

Rio de Janeiro : spectacularization and subjectivities in Globo's city / Barbara Szaniecki

Data derives : confronting digital geographic information as spectacle / Jim Thatcher and Craig M. Dalton

Branding, selfbranding, making : the neototalitarian relation between spectacle and prosumers in the age of cognitive capitalism / Nello Barile

Tin hat games : producing, funding, and consuming an independent role-playing game in the age of the interactive spectacle / Chiara Bassetti, Maurizio Teli and Annalisa Murgia

'Freelancing' as spectacular free labour : a case study on independent digital journalists in Romania / Romina Surugiu

Immaterial labour and reality TV : the affective surplus of excess / Jacob Johanssen

Disrupting the spectacle : the case of Capul TV during and after Turkey's Gezi uprising / Ergin Bulut and Haluk Mert Bal.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.